The postcard above shows the Royal Hotel's driveway and entrance
and below is a second picture of the building taken from a slightly
different position. The older part of the hotel, designed in the
Gothic style, was at the front of the building. The newer
wing, at the rear, was architecturally quite different. It was
the only part of the structure to survive the disastrous fire of
Easter Monday 1929. Mr. Bray, who was the proprietor
in 1929, had "spent
thousands of pounds in the previous months renovating the hotel[1]".
With the roof gone and so much water damage the main building had
to be demolished.

Matlock
Bath : New Bath Hotel (4)
The surviving wing of the hotel is visible on another postcard on
this web site; the foundations of the Royal Hotel are shown on the
same picture.

A list of people connected with the Royal Hotel, extracted from various Directories and census returns, is below. Coloured links take you to directory or census transcripts, where possible. If it doesn't say 'census', it was mentioned in a trades directory.

[1] Beresford, Charles (2007), "The
Bath at War, A Derbyshire Community and the Great War",
Country Books/Ashridge Press. ISBN 978 1 901214 91 8. Several chapters
are devoted to the time the Canadians spent in Matlock Bath.